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Episode 11.7. The annulment of contracts.

We left off last week with Timothy Warner getting a bunch of batteries chucked at him in the upper Warrens of Olympus on May 17th, 2246.

What would go down in Martian history as the day of batteries?

The first of the three great revolutionary events that would be enshrined in the mythic pantheon of Martian lore before the ink was dry on the declaration of independence.

In the immediate aftermath of the incident, the Mars Division Authority censored screen vids to prevent the story from spreading.

And the further you got from Expansion 1, 5-way 7, the more difficult it became to know that anything had happened

at all. Security services then fanned out looking for the rest of the battery chuckers. They had

arrested 42 people right there on the spot, but more than a thousand people had been there that

day, and security was ordered to track them all down, interview them, and identify the rest of the

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